Hydra team update 21st August

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2024-08-21-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+Firstly, we had a succesful launch of the [Hydra
+Doom](https://doom.hydra.family/) project at [RareEvo](https://rareevo.io/)!
+Coinciding with this we updated our landing page, and released a minor version
+with a small, but important, bugfix. In the next period we will continue our
+focus on incremental commits, network testing, and general API compatibility.
+
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* [Successful Hydra Doom demo at RareEvo](https://doom.hydra.family/)!
+* Progress on pumba network testing [#1552](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1552)
+* New landing page for <https://hydra.family>
+* Released [0.18.1](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/releases/tag/0.18.1)
+* Decided against magic-nix for now [#1570](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1570)
+* Bugfix for transaction pruning revealed by Hydra Doom [#1559](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1559)
+
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Test more network resiliance scenarios [#1575](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1575)
+* Continued work on incremental commit [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)
+* Switch ledger to Conway [#1178](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1178)
+* Investigate how to be compatible with cardanonical [#1577](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1577)